Kate Allatt is the Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) representative on the study team, having survived a brain stem stroke in 2010. After leaving hospital in February 2011 Kate founded the charity 'Fighting Strokes' and has provided one to one peer mentoring support to newly diagnosed stroke patients both in person and via online support for hundreds of patients throughout the UK and overseas. Kate is currently involved in other stroke rehabilitation research projects at the University of Nottingham and is excited at the prospect of seeing this new patient peer mentoring project get off the ground!